THE LITTLE TIME WHEN TIME STOOD STILL

Bohumil Hrabal

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ISBN: 9780349105406

Anglický překlad slavného románu Bohumila Hrabala

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Anglický překlad slavného románu Bohumila Hrabala

From the popular Czech writer (I Served the King of England, 1989; Too Loud a Solitude, 1990), two more novels filled with wit, life, hyperbole, history--and pathos. Long ago, a young wife named Mary has hair that's long and golden and a young husband, Francin, who's manager of a brewery in a little town where the beer is distributed by two big dray horses named Ede and Kare (who sometimes break away for a wild run, their hooves tossing sparks). Life goes on normally enough for the loving Mary and Francin until Uncle Pepin comes to visit (and stays for life)--after which comedy, cross-purposes, and happy (usually) misdirections become the rule. Uncle Pepin's very elements are life, energy, lust, swagger, and comic mischief, and between him and young Mary, a counterbalance to the more earnest if lovable Francin is formed, at least until new times come around, radio is invented, styles change, and ``Everything is going to have to be shortened''--including Mary's long golden hair, a loss by barbering that turns life upside down, at least for a minute or two. So ends Cutting It Short, succeeded by The Little Town Where Time Stood Still, which opens eight years later, looks backward into history under Austria's rule while coming forward through WW II, and finds Uncle Pepin's spirit pitiably waning as Francin's waxes--and as Communism arrives ``and some other kind of time began.'' Francin's old love of motors and trucks will give him a happy new life as distributor of vegetables and other goods--until an empty militarism brings calamity, followed by the piteous death of the faded Uncle Pepin and, from Hrabal, a concluding elegy for times past and gone that ranks with the most sweetly moving ever--period. Lyric, poetic, political novels so entirely filled with imagination and life--and tears--that they burst wonderfully and gloriously at the seams. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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'Glorious . . . Hrabal combines good humour and hilarity with tenderness and a tragic sense of his country's history' OBSERVER 'There are pages of queer magic unlike anything else currently being done with words' GUARDIAN 'Hrabal is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humour and a hushed tenderness of detail' Julian Barnes 'Czechoslovakia's greatest living writer' Milan Kundera 'Hrabal fills his pages with humanity and enchantment.' THE TIMES 'Here two comic tales of provincial life between the wars combine broad humour with minutely detailed description to produce a feverish energy. Enchanting.' TIME OUT 'This vivid and hilarious portrait of Czech villagers between the Wars, beery, eccentric and bursting with life, puts one in mind both of Czechoslovakia's greatest novel, Hasek's THE GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK and one of our own classics, Sterne's TRISTAM SHANDY.' VOGUE 'Funny and sad by turns, an enchanting book which records the passing of an age in a small rural community.' WHAT'S ON IN BIRMINGHAM 'This book offers a series of charming, richly descriptive vignettes set in a small town.' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

Výrobce
nezadán
Jazyk
angličtina
Autor
Bohumil Hrabal
Obsah
kniha
Rok vydání
1994
Počet stran
320